Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, November 6th.

What keeps you moving forward when your willpower fails?

Today, you'll learn about the Apostle Paul, who consistently demonstrated the courage to keep going.

How do you respond when you find yourself dealing with situations that are very painful? In fact,

you get rejected. Somebody walks out on you. You feel like they were dishonest with you? They

didn't tell you the truth. You feel lonely. You feel hurt, very discouraged. When you think about all the things

that happen to people and the reactions we have, how do you feel? You just want to say, you know what,

I don't have to put up with this anymore. And you just decide, I'm going to walk away. I quit. I give up. I don't have

to do this. I don't have to stay here. How do you really and truly feel? Because you see,

as a follower of Jesus Christ, giving up is not who we are. Surrendering is not who we are. Throwing in the towel is when we say, that's not who we are. Surrendering is not who we are.

Throwing in the towel as we say, that's not who we are.

And I think sometimes when I see these people walking on the street and they look like they're not going anywhere,

I know this is not true of all of them, probably, but I think the way they come across to me is they gave up on life they quit they don't

understand what it means to keep on keeping on and they just gave up on life and decided they

just take what life has to offer that's not who we are as a follower of Jesus Christ we have the right to expect the best Christ, we have the right to expect the best from him.

He has the right to expect the best from us.

And so when I think about giving up, that just doesn't fit who we are.

And if you're in the process right now, giving up on your marriage, giving up on your job, giving up on your children, giving

up on your financial situation.

Whatever the situation may be, before you give up, you stop and ask yourself the question,

does this fit who I am as a follower of Jesus?

And this message is all about keeping on, keeping on.

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